GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 191 Watts (227%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Fury X should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 473600 (1233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is quite a bit (about 918%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 242400 (918%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be much (approximately 918%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60600 (918%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.